NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

New Jersey Nets89–74New York Knicks

New Jersey Nets at New York Knicks

Date: Sunday 16 March 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 110th meetingof 228 played

New Jersey Nets

New Jersey Nets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Sam Cassell	36:55	8–24	2–10	5–6	3	7	10	3	2	0	3	3	23	+6
Kendall Gill	36:18	5–16	0–1	7–8	2	2	4	7	1	0	1	2	17	0
Xavier McDaniel	35:51	5–10	0–1	4–6	5	8	13	1	1	0	1	2	14	+18
Jim Jackson	32:44	3–7	1–2	0–0	1	2	3	1	1	0	3	2	7	+8
Kerry Kittles	28:20	4–11	2–5	0–0	3	5	8	1	1	1	1	3	10	+19
Joe Kleine	25:57	1–3	0–0	0–0	4	5	9	3	1	0	0	3	2	+14
Eric Montross	19:17	2–6	0–0	1–3	6	3	9	0	0	0	2	5	5	+2
Tony Massenburg	14:26	1–2	0–0	1–2	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	-5
Kevin Edwards	9:43	2–7	0–0	4–5	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	8	+12
Jack Haley	0:28	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1
Team totals	239:59	31–86	5–19	22–30	26	35	61	18	7	1	13	21	89	—

New York Knicks

New York Knicks box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Larry Johnson	—	7–12	1–2	6–8	2	3	5	2	0	1	0	3	21	-7
Allan Houston	—	5–16	3–5	0–0	1	2	3	0	1	0	1	3	13	-6
Patrick Ewing	—	4–11	0–0	3–4	3	4	7	2	0	1	1	4	11	-15
John Starks	—	4–12	2–4	0–0	0	1	1	4	2	0	0	3	10	-9
Charles Oakley	—	2–6	0–0	3–5	3	11	14	2	2	1	2	4	7	-11
Chris Childs	—	1–11	0–5	2–2	1	3	4	5	4	0	2	3	4	-8
Charlie Ward	—	1–3	1–2	0–0	1	0	1	3	0	0	4	2	3	-11
Walter McCarty	—	1–3	1–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	+3
John Wallace	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	-6
Team totals	—	26–75	8–20	14–19	11	24	35	18	9	3	12	23	74	—

This season

New York Knicks 2, Brooklyn Nets 2 in NBA 1996-97.

4 Dec 1996New York Knicks 109–102 New Jersey Nets
30 Dec 1996New Jersey Nets 86–98 New York Knicks
16 Mar 199789–74 this game
28 Mar 1997New York Knicks 86–92 New Jersey Nets

Records going in

New Jersey Nets: 19–44
New York Knicks: 47–17

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: New York Knicks 117, Brooklyn Nets 111.

30 Dec 1996New Jersey Nets 86–98 New York Knicks
28 Mar 1997New York Knicks 86–92 New Jersey Nets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.